Howard Stern says replaying his old vulgar interviews with Donald Trump would be a 'betrayal'

There's hardly anyone more qualified to comment on Donald Trump's
use of what he calls "locker room talk" than Howard Stern.

The shock jock has spent his career doing the most outrageous
things he can come up with to entertain his listeners on the
radio, and that included having Donald Trump on his show numerous
times.

Some of the comments the Republican presidential nominee
made on Stern's show, including disparaging remarks about
women, have been played and transcribed by numerous media outlets
since the vulgar and aggressive "Access Hollywood" tape
featuring Trump and Billy Bush leaked.

On his Monday morning SiriusXM show, Stern commented on the use
of his interviews by the media, and why he hasn't played his old
Trump soundbites on his show.

"These conversations that I had with Donald Trump weren't done in
private like the Billy Bush tapes. This was on the radio," Stern
said. "Why don't I play all the tapes? I have to tell you why: I
feel Donald Trump did the show in an effort to be entertaining
and have fun with us, and I feel like it would be a betrayal to
any of our guests if I sat there and played them now where people
are attacking him."

And Stern adds a little more background to those old interviews.

"I knew I had a guy who loved to talk about sex," the host said.
"I had a guy who loved to evaluate women on a scale of 1-10.
These are avenues I went down because I knew it would entertain
the audience."

Stern, who has said in the past he's supporting Hillary Clinton,
claims he turned down "500" requests to talk about his chats
with Trump. Speaking for almost a half-hour at the opening of his
show about Trump, he admitted to being surprised that his Trump
interviews didn't make the media rounds earlier.

"They were right there in the open," he said.

And on the topic of locker room talk, the term Trump has
used to defend his comments on the "Access Hollywood" footage,
Stern differs sharply from his onetime guest.

"Believe me, when I'm around guys, 85 percent of the times you're
talking about p---y, but I have never been in the room when
someone has said 'grab them by the p---y,'" said Stern, repeating
what Trump said in the "Access Hollywood" tape. "No one's ever
advocated going that step where you get a little bit, 'Hey, I'm
going to invade someone's space.' ... A lot of [locker room talk]
is real kind of desperate talk. The reason it's in a locker room
is because no one's proud of it."